Using Hollowpoint to flesh out our Diaspora campaign

The last Diaspora: The Precious Few session was June 5th and it looks like it’ll be at least another two weeks until we play again. For me, it feels as though the energy and momentum of the campaign is in trouble.

I’ve been kicking around a few ideas on the Hollowpoint mission, and ultimately have settled on the idea of running a session in the Precious Few universe.

In the past, while other DMs were running long-standing campaigns, I would often run one-shots when we did not have quorum. Most of these one-shots were set in the world of the long-running campaigns, and fleshed out tangentially related locations and situations.

So hopefully this brave endeavor will serve its many purposes: learn Hollowpoint, further flesh-out the universe, and reenergize interest in the campaign. Heck, I even started writing up a Fiasco play set for the campaign.

Below is the mission that I will be running:

The Mission

Good morning Cercyons, you will be landing dirtside on Exxon shortly. Your mission is to find and then secure the Dynamic Solutions data backup center.

The Forge has determined the data backup center is in the Emolument mountain range near the alpine village of Wachovia (34° 3’ 8” N / 118° 14’ 34” W).

Once the data center location has been determined and verified, use one of the two one-time orbital comm unit to relay the coordinates. Then proceed in securing the data center. Once secure, notify the Forge via the final one-time orbital comm unit.

Should you need it, extraction information will be delivered upon completion.